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Farewell, Saul Steinberg, a Mordant, Comic Artist

Saul Steinberg, who died on May 12 at the age of 84, was one of the best-known and most admired artists of his day-and certainly the most consistently amusing. Yet his name was rarely, if ever, thought...

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Priciest Co-op Ever, Fit for King-Size Ego, Gets Over $35 Million

On the morning of Feb. 25, Edward Lee Cave and Barbara Corcoran, the owners of two real estate brokerages, ran into each other on the Upper East Side on their way to work. As the old friends and...

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Steinberg’s Bank Dumped Shares Before Attempted Reliance Sale

The Provident Securities and Investment Company, a lender to a Steinberg family trust, whose trustees include Reliance Group Holdings Inc. chairman and former chief executive Saul Steinberg and his...

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The Steinbergs’ Fixer-Upper

In 1988, Saul and Gayfryd Steinberg filled the Metropolitan Museum's Temple of Dendur to celebrate the wedding of Mr. Steinberg's daughter, Laura, to Loews scion Jonathan Tisch. The affair, which...

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Balazs in the Village

Condé Nast International chairman Jonathan Newhouse quietly sold his five-story Greenwich Village townhouse to Mercer Hotel owner André Balazs for the asking price of $4.2 million. The 25-foot-wide...

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Hedda Sterne Steinberg Estate Sells Her and Saul’s Old UES Townhouse

Pretty as a painting. (Property Shark) Hedda Sterne is one of those artists who has faded into the backdrop of our collective cultural consciousness. A worthy artist in her own right, Stern is perhaps...

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Cartoon Blues: The Life of The New Yorker’s Favorite Depressive Is Drawn Out...

Saul Steinberg. (Photo by Gjon Mill/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images) Saul Steinberg was the best-loved nonwriter in the history of The New Yorker. He did cartoons, fake maps, trick diplomas and...

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